Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cstvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!seismo!mcvax!ukc!cstvax!gdmr From: gdmr@cstvax.UUCP (George D M Ross) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Metathesis Message-ID: <22@cstvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 18-Nov-85 06:33:07 EST Article-I.D.: cstvax.22 Posted: Mon Nov 18 06:33:07 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Nov-85 06:55:19 EST References: <747@cyb-eng.UUCP> <1900005@datacube.UUCP> Reply-To: gdmr@cstvax.UUCP (George D M Ross) Organization: Comp. Sc., Edinburgh Univ., Scotland Lines: 23 In article <257@ptsfb.UUCP> rob@ptsfb.UUCP (Rob Bernardo) writes: >In article <1047@oddjob.UUCP> sra@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson) writes: >>In article <256@ptsfb.UUCP> rob@ptsfb.UUCP (Rob Bernardo) writes: >I suppose what you're asking is this: since "Wednesday" is pronounced >"Wendsday", is there not metathesis of the "n" and "d". It is? I've just conducted a quick straw poll and found that everybody pronounced it "Wedensday", rather closer to the derivation "Woden's day". >.... This is why, for example, >"sense" and "cents" sound identical, except in hyper-careful speech. Hmmm. I really don't think that everybody around here speaks hyper-carefully. Anyway, please don't assume that your local accent/dialect/whatever is universal (all the people I asked are native Scots speakers, of one variety or another). Yes, I am interested in your point of view, but it would be more useful if you could indicate its applicability.... -- George D M Ross, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Edinburgh Phone: +44 31-667 1081 x2730 UUCP: !ukc!cstvax!gdmr JANET: gdmr@UK.AC.ed.cstvax